Originally Posted by DoctorNarrative
If you were circumventing Steam anyway then why would you have got the update? I was playing with Steam off through the exe and obviously can still do so. Until they release a real patch or DLC I will continue to do so, and even then I have the exe backed up in case it still works.

As for why Steam can get away with such things… because people accept it. End of story.

I didn't update it. I had steam in offline mode. Only ran the game through tesV.exe. But steam somehow managed to update it. Guess i'll have to re-install it now but steam will probably try to update it when i install it again.